Rockbox Sansa c200v2 Series Manual Download

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Chapter 12. Plugins

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Figure 12.42.: The select bookmark menu

Global Settings

Set the default settings for the text viewer. The setting items are the

same as

Viewer Options

. The global settings are stored in

.rockbox/rocks/viewers/viewer.dat

Quit

Exits the plugin. The text viewer automatically stores its settings, the current
position and bookmarks in

.rockbox/rocks/viewers/viewer_file.dat

Bookmarks

To add a bookmark, press

Submenu

Select

The bookmark will be displayed as

shown below. To delete the bookmark press the same button again.

Figure 12.43.: A bookmark

12.3.11. Theme Remove

This plugin offers a way to remove a theme. Open the

Context Menu

(see section

4.1.2

(page

)) upon a theme

.cfg

file and select

Open With...

→

theme_remove

. Some

files are not removed regardless of the

Remove Options

such as

rockbox_default.wps

and the font file currently in use.

Theme Remove menu

Remove Theme.

Selecting this will delete the files specified in the

Remove Options

After a theme has been successfully removed, a log message is displayed listing
which items have been deleted and which are being kept. Exit this screen by
pressing any key. A file called

theme_remove_log.txt

is created in the root di-

rectory of your player listing all the changes.

The Rockbox manual

(version 3.13)

Sansa c200v2 Series

Summary of Contents for Sansa c200v2 Series

Page 1: ...The Rockbox Manual for Sansa c200v2 Series rockbox org March 5 2013...

Page 2: ...os Maria Garcia Valdecasas Bernal Peter Schlenker Version 3 13 Built using pdfL A TEX Permission is granted to copy distribute and or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation...

Page 3: ...3 Running Rockbox 17 2 4 Updating Rockbox 17 2 5 Uninstalling Rockbox 18 2 5 1 Automatic Uninstallation 18 2 5 2 Manual Uninstallation 18 2 6 Troubleshooting 18 3 Quick Start 19 3 1 Basic Overview 19...

Page 4: ...lists 38 4 4 6 Loading saved playlists 38 4 5 Hotkeys 38 5 The Main Menu 39 5 1 Introducing the Main Menu 39 5 2 Navigating the Main Menu 39 5 3 Recent Bookmarks 40 5 4 Files 40 5 5 Database 41 5 6 No...

Page 5: ...Auto Change Directory 57 7 10 Constrain Auto Change 57 7 11 Last fm Log 58 7 12 Cuesheet Support 58 7 13 Skip Length 58 7 14 Prevent Track Skipping 58 7 15 Rewind Before Resume 58 7 16 Rewind on Pause...

Page 6: ...ls 78 10 6 Mono Mode 78 10 7 File Split Options 78 10 8 Prerecord Time 78 10 9 Clear Recording Directory 78 10 10 Clipping Light 79 10 11 Trigger 79 11 Time and Date 81 12 Plugins 82 12 1 Games 82 12...

Page 7: ...3 Cube 109 12 2 4 Demystify 109 12 2 5 Fire 110 12 2 6 Fractals 110 12 2 7 Logo 111 12 2 8 Mosaique 111 12 2 9 Oscilloscope 112 12 2 10 PictureFlow 113 12 2 11 Plasma 114 12 2 12 Rocklife 115 12 2 13...

Page 8: ...stomising the User Interface 149 13 1 1 Customising The Main Menu 149 13 1 2 Getting Extras 149 13 1 3 Loading Fonts 149 13 1 4 Loading Languages 150 13 1 5 Changing Filetype Colours 150 13 1 6 Loadin...

Page 9: ...ons of metadata handling 169 C Album Art 170 C 1 Limitations 170 C 2 Where to put album art 170 D Theme Tags 172 D 1 Status Bar 172 D 2 Hardware Capabilities 172 D 3 Information from the track tags 17...

Page 10: ...D 28 1 Options 186 D 29 Other Tags 187 E Config file options 189 F Menu Overview 195 G User feedback 196 G 1 Bug reports 196 G 1 1 Rules for submitting new bug reports 196 G 2 Feature ideas 196 G 2 1...

Page 11: ...ut into making Rockbox sound the best it can and improvements are constantly being made All models have access to a large number of plugins including many games applications and graphical demos You ca...

Page 12: ...ons on the margin to help you finding important parts or parts you could skip The following icons are used Note This indicates a note A note starts always with the text Note In order to b make finding...

Page 13: ...to access the player On Windows this means you need to know the drive letter associated with the player On Linux you need to know the mount point of your player On Mac OS X you need to know the volum...

Page 14: ...2 1 Automated Installation To automatically install Rockbox download the official installer and housekeeping tool Rockbox Utility It allows you to Automatically install all needed components for usin...

Page 15: ...e release version and the current build there is also an archive of daily builds available for download These are built once a day from the latest source code in the repository For a manual install yo...

Page 16: ...re c200 version2 Latest Firmware Installation Instructions 03 02 05 td p 34097 The bootloader http download rockbox org bootloader sandisk sansa c200v2 bootloader c200v2 sansa The version of mkamsboot...

Page 17: ...you will also need a voice file Voice files allow Rockbox to speak the user interface to you Rockbox Utility can install an English voice file or you can download it from http www rockbox org daily s...

Page 18: ...n unmodified original firmware to your player and then reboot into the Sandisk firmware See section 3 1 3 page 20 for more information If you wish to clean up your disk you may also wish to delete the...

Page 19: ...buttons is the Select button At the bottom right corner of the square is a small separate button the Power button Moving clockwise around the outside of the unit on the top are the Volume Up and Volum...

Page 20: ...MS device like a USB Drive music files can be put on the player via any standard file transfer method that you would use to copy files between drives e g Drag and Drop Files may be placed wherever you...

Page 21: ...c concepts Playlists Rockbox is playlist oriented This means that every time you play an audio file a so called dynamic playlist is generated unless you play a saved playlist You can modify the dynami...

Page 22: ...hipped with Rockbox need additional fonts from the fonts b package so make sure you installed them Also if you downloaded additional themes from the Internet make sure you have the needed fonts instal...

Page 23: ...music on your player using categories like album artist genre etc You can select whether to browse using the File Browser or the Database Browser by selecting either Files or Database in the Main Menu...

Page 24: ...e sec tion 5 13 page 46 Rec Activate the Hotkey function see sec tion 4 5 page 38 4 1 2 Context Menu Figure 4 2 The Context Menu The Context Menu allows you to perform certain operations on files or d...

Page 25: ...ons explained in section 13 1 6 page 151 Open with Runs a viewer plugin on the file Normally when a file is selected in Rock box Rockbox automatically detects the file type and runs the appropriate pl...

Page 26: ...n the Rockbox website at ZLoadableKeyboardLayouts Note When the cursor is on the input line Select deletes the preceding character b Key Action Volume Down Volume Up Move the line cursor within the te...

Page 27: ...ing Database Initialization You may have directories on your player whose contents should not be added to the database Placing a file named database ignore in a directory will exclude the files in tha...

Page 28: ...ut all modifications exported to ASCII format should be readable by all database versions Import Modifications Allows the rockbox database_changelog txt backup to be conveniently loaded into the datab...

Page 29: ...length numeric system Lm track len min numeric system Ls track len sec numeric system 4 3 While Playing Screen The While Playing Screen WPS displays various pieces of information about the cur rently...

Page 30: ...te VBR files display average bitrate and avg Elapsed and total time A slidebar progress meter representing where in the song you are Peak meter See section 13 2 page 152 for details of customising you...

Page 31: ...4 3 3 page 34 Select Submenu Enter ID3 Viewer Rec Activate the Hotkey function see sec tion 4 5 page 38 Power Right or Short Right Long Right Skip to the next directory Power Left or Short Left Long L...

Page 32: ...o view save search and reshuffle the current playlist To change settings for the Playlist Viewer press Long Select while viewing the current playlist to bring up the Playlist Viewer Menu In this menu...

Page 33: ...assignment of a personal rating value 0 10 to a track which can be displayed in the WPS and used in the Database browser The value wraps at 10 Bookmarks This allows you to create a bookmark in the cur...

Page 34: ...layback speed without affecting the pitch and vice versa In timestretch mode there are separate displays for pitch and speed and each can be altered independently Due to the limitations of the algorit...

Page 35: ...Rockbox can Insert into a playlist in several places Queue In Rockbox to Queue a song means to put the song into a playlist and then to remove the song from the playlist once it has been played The o...

Page 36: ...playlist will be named root m3u8 and saved in the root of your player s disk 4 4 3 Adding music to playlists Adding music to a dynamic playlist Figure 4 5 The Playlist Submenu The Playlist Submenu is...

Page 37: ...re directories to a playlist If the Playlist Submenu is invoked on a single track it will put only that track into the playlist On the other hand if the Playlist Submenu is invoked on a directory Rock...

Page 38: ...4 1 3 page 26 enter a filename for your playlist and accept it and you are done 4 4 6 Loading saved playlists Through the File Browser Playlist files like regular music tracks can be selected through...

Page 39: ...ll save settings when it accesses the flash storage the next time for example when refilling the music buffer or navigating through the File Browser Changes to settings may therefore not be saved unle...

Page 40: ...okmark Submenu Select the previous bookmark Select or Right Resume from the selected bookmark Left Exit Recent Bookmark menu Rec Delete the currently selected bookmark Long Select Enter the context me...

Page 41: ...e other value and would like to restore the default value 5 7 1 Sound Settings The Sound Settings menu offers a selection of sound properties you may change to customise your listening experience The...

Page 42: ...Long Select enters the Recording Settings see section 10 page 77 The Recording Screen shows the time elapsed and the size of the file being recorded A peak meter is present to allow you set gain corre...

Page 43: ...possible to load these settings from a file Such files should have the filename extension fmr and reside in the directory rockbox fmpresets note that this directory does not exist after the initial Ro...

Page 44: ...ng Select to save Selecting a preset Select to go to the presets list Use Volume Up and Volume Down to move the cursor and then press Select or Right to select Use Left to leave the preset list withou...

Page 45: ...ilable for storing music the buffer The battery status Memory size and amount of free space on the two data volumes this info is given separately for internal memory Int and for a plugged in memory ca...

Page 46: ...creen then pressing up and down will cycle through this setting in opposite directions 5 14 Shortcuts This menu item is a container for user defined shortcuts to files folders or settings With a short...

Page 47: ...r talk to talk the time or sleep X where X is the number of minutes to run the sleep timer for 0 to disable name is required for this shortcut type shutdown data is ignored name can be used to display...

Page 48: ...her than 0 dB are available and can be used to raise the volume more than would otherwise be possible These volume levels will ordi narily lead to distorted sound but might work nicely for music that...

Page 49: ...moves all sound that is common to both channels Since most music is recorded with vocals being equally present in both channels to make the singer sound centrally placed this often but not always has...

Page 50: ...s where one instrument is often hard panned to just one of the speakers Many people will find such records tiring to listen to using earphones and no crossfeed effect Crossfeed has the following setti...

Page 51: ...rameter should always be set to 0 7 for the shelving filters Higher values will add a small boost around the cutoff frequency that is almost always undesirable Bands 1 8 Peaking filters Peaking EQ fil...

Page 52: ...anges at the expense of making audio quieter Alternatively precut can be used with a flat EQ curve to implement a volume cap For example on a player that allows overdriving the headphone output to 6dB...

Page 53: ...er noise shaper 6 10 Timestretch Enabling Timestretch allows you to change the playback speed without it affecting the pitch of the recording After enabling this feature and rebooting you can access t...

Page 54: ...nal is compressed The ratio setting of Limit means essentially a ratio of infinity to one In this case the output signal is not allowed to exceed the threshold at all The Knee setting determines how a...

Page 55: ...Yes Rockbox b will move on to the next directory on your hard drive If the Auto Change Directory option is set to No playback will stop when the current directory or playlist is finished All The curr...

Page 56: ...current dynamic playlist instead of being played immediately Pausing and stopping playback is disabled as well as skipping songs and launching plugins 7 7 Replaygain This allows you to control the re...

Page 57: ...p that is heard when skipping forward or backward be tween tracks The beep is disabled when set to Off 7 9 Auto Change Directory Control what Rockbox does when it reaches the end of a directory If Aut...

Page 58: ...same directory as the audio file checked first or within the rockbox cue directory The contents of a cuesheet file can also be embedded within the metadata of an audio file There is currently support...

Page 59: ...uming a paused track Use the next option for b rewinding on pause Note The actual rewind distance may differ a little from the requested value depending b on the file in question 7 16 Rewind on Pause...

Page 60: ...ith options relating to how the File Browser displays files Sort Case Sensitive If this option is set to Yes all files that start with upper case letters will be listed first followed by all files tha...

Page 61: ...shown No files or directories are hidden Supported The File Browser displays all directories and files supported by Rockbox see section A 1 page 163 Files and directories starting with dot or with the...

Page 62: ...ds the backlight will stay lit for that amount of time after a button press Backlight While Plugged In This setting is equivalent to the Backlight set ting except it applies when the player is plugged...

Page 63: ...again Rockbox chooses which method it should use depending of how much it has to scroll to the left This setting lets you tell Rockbox where that limit is expressed in percentage of the line length S...

Page 64: ...led this way On the other hand if you are interested in the power level that is applied to your headphones you should choose Linear display This setting cannot be displayed in units like volts or watt...

Page 65: ...yer for changes to Max Entries in File b Browser or Max Playlist Size to take effect while Glyphs To Cache will affect the next font load 8 5 2 Use Shortcuts Menu Instead of Quick Screen This option a...

Page 66: ...USB HID feature On and Off When this feature is enabled the player enumerates as a Human Interface Device HID composed of several HID sub devices Since the player also enumerates as a Mass Storage Dev...

Page 67: ...a wireless remote control for this purpose Key Action Play Slideshow start Power Slideshow leave Left Slide previous Right Slide next Long Left Slide first Long Right Slide last Submenu Black screen...

Page 68: ...ey Action Play Submenu Left Right Cursor move up down left right re spectively Select Left mouse button click Power Right mouse button click Volume Up Volume Down Mouse wheel scroll up down respec tiv...

Page 69: ...off power after the unit has been idle for a defined number of minutes The player is idle when playback is stopped or paused It is not idle while the USB or charger is connected or while recording Set...

Page 70: ...n tracks are launched from the file browser and b does not work for tracks launched via the database In addition they do not work with dynamic playlists Bookmark on Stop This option controls whether R...

Page 71: ...Do not keep a list of recently used bookmarks This also removes the Recent Bookmarks from the Main Menu Yes Keep a list of recently used bookmarks Each new bookmark is added to the list of recent book...

Page 72: ...WPS to skip back to its beginning When pressing Left again in the first few seconds of a track to go to the previous track the previously on first button press saved resume position is retained There...

Page 73: ...Each directory is assigned a number based upon its position in the file list They are then announced as Directory 1 Directory 2 etc Off No attempt will be made to speak directory names You can use pr...

Page 74: ...ble voicing uses the method set under Voice Filenames above Say File Type This option turns on voicing of file types when Voice Filenames is set to Spell or Numbers When Voice Directories is set to Sp...

Page 75: ...section 13 1 3 page 149 for further details about fonts While Playing Screen Opens the File Browser in the rockbox wps directory and displays all wps files Selecting one will activate it Left will exi...

Page 76: ...in the Colours submenu Bar Gradient Colour A bar with a colour gradient the colours are set in the Colours submenu Colours The options in this menu sets the colours for visual elements in Rockbox Lin...

Page 77: ...ssed WavPack and the lossy MPEG Layer 3 10 2 Encoder Settings MP3 only This sets the bitrate when using the MPEG Layer 3 format 10 3 Frequency Choose the recording frequency sample rate 96 kHz 88 2 kH...

Page 78: ...n the Split Filesize is reached or when the Split Time has elapsed What to do when Splitting This controls what will happen when the splitting condi tion is fulfilled the two available options here ar...

Page 79: ...other parameter has any effect Once will have the trigger start one recording only after the recording has finished the input signal will not start another recording Repeat will have the trigger star...

Page 80: ...off With this setting you have to stop the recording manually for at least This time specifies the duration the signal must drop below the stop thresh old to stop the recording By selecting high valu...

Page 81: ...Date Time related menu options Pressing Long Select will voice the current time if voice support is enabled Set Time Date Set current time and date Time Format Choose 12 or 24 hour clock The Rockbox...

Page 82: ...n associated file i e text files chip8 games or from the Open with option on the Context Menu 12 1 Games See also the Chip 8 emulator in section 12 3 2 page 118 and Rockboy in section 12 3 6 page 122...

Page 83: ...itting them with the ball once or more Sometimes a special item falls down when you destroy a brick For a special item to take effect you must catch it with the paddle Look out for the bad ones Specia...

Page 84: ...ed from the board when a cluster of three of more of the same type is formed The game is over when any bubbles on the board extend below the bottom line To make things more difficult the entire board...

Page 85: ...wed to select a new match from the same file or quit the game Force play while the computer is thinking will cause it to make its move immediately If done while it s your turn the computer will move f...

Page 86: ...locks you remove per turn the more points you get Key Action Left Right Play Submenu Move the cursor around the blocks Select Remove a block Power Exit 12 1 6 Chopper Figure 12 6 Chopper Navigate a ca...

Page 87: ...red peg signifies a correct peg in the correct position and a white peg signifies a correct peg in the wrong position Key Action Power Show menu Select Check suggestion and move to next line Left Rig...

Page 88: ...lve Rec Select Solve step by step Power Quit the game 12 1 10 Goban Figure 12 9 Goban Goban is a a plugin for playing viewing and recording games of Go also known as Weiqi Baduk Igo and Goe It uses st...

Page 89: ...ven try it the file will most likely be corrupted if you save over it You have been warned The file sgf gbn_def sgf is used by the plugin to store any unsaved changes in the most recently loaded game...

Page 90: ...fo View and modify the metadata of the current game Playback Control Control the playback of the current playlist and modify the volume of your player Zoom Level Zoom in or out on the board If you set...

Page 91: ...SGF readers Event The name of the event which this game was a part of if any Place The place that this game took place Round If part of a tournament the round number for this game Done Return to the p...

Page 92: ...riation this will navigate to the next variation after the current one This is the only way to reach variations which start with adding or removing stones as you cannot follow them by playing the same...

Page 93: ...e which involves swapping pairs of jewels in order to form connected segments of three or more of the same type The goal of the game is to score as many points as possible before running out of availa...

Page 94: ...containing rows of blocks which can be shifted left or right You can move the rows only by pushing them and if you move the rows carelessly you will get stuck You can have another go by selecting retr...

Page 95: ...use the information you are given to work out where the mines are and avoid them When the player is certain that they know the location of a mine it can be tagged to avoid accidentally stepping on it...

Page 96: ...ong is a simple one or two player tennis game Whenever a player misses the ball the other scores The game starts in demo mode with the CPU controlling both sides As soon as a button to control one of...

Page 97: ...ure 12 16 Robotfindskitten In this game you are robot Your job is to find kitten This task is complicated by the existence of various things which are not kitten Robot must touch items to determine if...

Page 98: ...wn Volume Down Rotate anticlockwise Volume Up Play Rotate clockwise Select Drop Hold switch Pause Power Quit 12 1 20 Rockblox1d Rockblox1d is a game for people who find rockblox too hard In this versi...

Page 99: ...wn pictures into a puzzle Key controls Key Action Left Right Play and Submenu Move Tile Rec Shuffle Select Switch between pictures default puz zle album art and your own image if launched via Open Wit...

Page 100: ...number of apples eaten the maze is replaced by a new one 12 1 24 Sokoban Figure 12 21 Sokoban The object of the game is to push boxes into their correct position in a crowded warehouse with a minimal...

Page 101: ...l sets may contain levels that are too large for this version of Sokoban and are unplayable as a result 12 1 25 Solitaire Figure 12 22 Klondike solitaire This is the classic Klondike solitaire game fo...

Page 102: ...on one of the 4 final colour stacks Volume Up Put the card on top of the remains stack on one of the final colour stacks Power Show menu 12 1 26 Spacerocks Figure 12 23 Spacerocks Spacerocks is a clo...

Page 103: ...n take o s and the filled square which is used as a mobile wall to allow your filled circle to get to places on the screen it could not otherwise reach The block cannot take o s Key Action Left Move L...

Page 104: ...to mark numbers in cells that are possible candidates for the cells This can be done with the scratchpad shown as separate column Change the number under the cursor to the number you want to put on th...

Page 105: ...not Food The small square hollow pieces are food Move the worm over a food tile to eat it After eating the worm grows Each time a piece of food has been eaten a new piece of food will pop up somewhere...

Page 106: ...entry on the score board turns black Len Here the current length of the worm is displayed When a worm is eating food it grows by one pixel for each step it moves Hungry That s the normal state of a w...

Page 107: ...opponent and that food From now on you can control the other worm by blocking it You could trap it by making a 1 pixel wide U turn You also could move from food to food and make sure you keep between...

Page 108: ...les Scroll mode Power or Long Power Exits bounce demo Available options are Xdist Ydist The distance to X axis and Y axis respectively Xadd Yadd How fast the code moves on the sine curve on each axis...

Page 109: ...nu Cycle draw mode Right Left Select axis to adjust Volume Down Volume Up Change speed angle speed can not be changed while paused Power Quit 12 2 4 Demystify Figure 12 30 Demystify Demystify is a scr...

Page 110: ...t Key Action Play Submenu Increase decrease number of flames Left Toggle flame type Right Toggle moving flames Power Quit 12 2 6 Fractals Figure 12 32 Fractals Mandelbrot set This demonstration draws...

Page 111: ...t and return to the default image Power Quit 12 2 7 Logo Demo showing the Rockbox logo bouncing around the screen Key Action Right Left Increase decrease speed on the x axis Play Submenu Increase decr...

Page 112: ...sound samples that make up the music being played At faster speed rates the player is less responsive to user input and music may start to skip Keys Key Action Select Toggle filled curve plot Submenu...

Page 113: ...ore important that these are working correctly before attempting to use PictureFlow In addition there are some other points of which to be aware PictureFlow will accept album art larger than the dimen...

Page 114: ...ng the centre slide Therefore if set to 4 there will be 3 slides on the left the centre slide and then 3 slides on the right Zoom Changes the distance at which slides are rendered from the camera Show...

Page 115: ...oaded into this plugin A cells file is a text file A capital O marks a live cell a dot marks a dead cell all other characters are ignored Everything on a line starting with an exclamation sign and inc...

Page 116: ...This is a VU meter which displays the volume of the left and right audio channels There are 3 types of meter selectable The analogue meter is a classic needle style The digital meter is modelled afte...

Page 117: ...see section 4 1 2 page 24 Viewer Plu gin Associated filetype s Context Menu only Shortcuts link Chip 8 Emula tor ch8 Frotz z1 z8 Image Viewer bmp jpg jpeg png ppm Lua scripting language lua MP3 Encod...

Page 118: ...will not be played automatically If the link file contains only one entry no list will be shown you will directly jump to that location The file shortcuts link in the root directory is an exception A...

Page 119: ...key For example a file containing the single line Code 0122458469ABCDEF would correspond to the following non default mappings 3 2 6 8 7 4 8 6 The default keymappings are Chip8 Off 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9...

Page 120: ...free modern works can be down loaded http www ifarchive org The specific folder on the if archive containing Z Machine games http www ifarchive org indexes if archiveXgamesXzcode html The Infocom home...

Page 121: ...ly take effect for JPEG images Quit Quits the viewer and returns to the File Browser Note Progressive scan and other unusual JPEG files are not supported and will result b in various unsupported xx me...

Page 122: ...ncoder Note The encoder will choose the appropriate bitstream format from the sample rate of b the input file The output bitstream format is MPEG 1 Layer 3 for 32 44 1 and 48 kHz and MPEG 2 Layer 3 fo...

Page 123: ...degrees Set Palette Pick one of a few predefined colour palettes Reset Resets the Emulator Quit RockBoy Quits the Rockboy plugin 12 3 7 Search This plugin can be used on playlists It searches through...

Page 124: ...okmark pages Default keys Key Action Volume Up Scroll up Volume Down Scroll down Left Top of file Narrow mode One screen left Wide mode Right Bottom of file Narrow mode One screen right Wide mode Play...

Page 125: ...ilable options are 1 to 5 screens per page Alignment Set the text alignment Right Set the text alignment to the right Useful for displaying right to left languages such as Arabic or Hebrew Left Set th...

Page 126: ...e line Overlap Pages Set whether the last line from the previous screen is re tained when scrolling pages No Do not retain previous line Yes Retain previous line Auto scroll Speed Control the speed of...

Page 127: ...12 43 A bookmark 12 3 11 Theme Remove This plugin offers a way to remove a theme Open the Context Menu see section 4 1 2 page 24 upon a theme cfg file and select Open With theme_remove Some files are...

Page 128: ...theme cfg file is han dled Backdrop Specifies how the backdrop bmp file belonging to a theme cfg file is handled Iconset Specifies how the iconset bmp file belonging to a theme cfg file is han dled Vi...

Page 129: ...ectrum Keyboard or they can be used like a Kempston joystick Per default the buttons including an additional but fixed menu button are assigned as follows Key Action Play Submenu Left Right Directiona...

Page 130: ...rameskip ZXBox tries to display 50 frames per second Sound Turns sound on or off Volume Controls volume of sound output Predefined Keymap Select one of the predefined keymaps For example 2w90z means m...

Page 131: ...nd recording various informa tion about your battery to memory A new point is written to memory every minute Every time the disk is accessed for any reason such as refilling the audio buffer open ing...

Page 132: ...arger An A in that column shows if the power adapter was attached to the unit at the time of the measurement U USB powered Only for targets that support this A U will indicate if the unit was using th...

Page 133: ...around the keypad Select Select a button Rec Delete last entered digit or clear after cal culation Long Select Calculate Power Quit 12 4 4 Calendar Figure 12 46 Calendar This is a small and simple cal...

Page 134: ...any kind of game with up to ten players Setup Key Action Right Left Increase decrease displayed Value Select Move to next screen Power Move to previous screen First enter the number of players 1 10 T...

Page 135: ...m the menu it is possible to delete a player modify the round time for the current player or set the total time for the game When the round time is up for a player the message ROUND UP is shown press...

Page 136: ...Small round analog clock is displayed in the middle of the LCD Time readout if enabled is displayed at the upper left If Time readout is in 12 hour 12h mode AM or PM will be displayed at the upper rig...

Page 137: ...please visit http en wikipedia org wiki Binary_numeral_system Plain mode This mode shows a plain clock in large text that takes up nearly the whole LCD 12 4 7 Disk Tidy Disk Tidy deletes junk files co...

Page 138: ...rd The master password is the password that you must use to access your stored passwords Once inside enter the context menu by pressing Long Select From the context menu you can create new entries del...

Page 139: ...ime tag word time tag The time tag must be in the form mm ss mm ss xx or mm ss xxx where mm is minutes ss is seconds xx is tenth of milliseconds and xxx is milliseconds Any other tags and lines withou...

Page 140: ...Title ext Lyrics Musics Artist Title ext Lyrics Musics Title ext Lyrics Title ext Controls Key Action Volume Up Volume Down Volume up down Left Go to beginning of track or if pressed while in the firs...

Page 141: ...tag Editor Enter the timetag editor Quit Exit the plugin Editing the time tags The display time for each line can be changed with the timetag editor Selecting a line changes its time to the current po...

Page 142: ...andom Menu Generate Folder List Generates a list of all folders found on the player You can filter the directories which are scanned by creating a file called rockbox folder_advance_dir txt Only the d...

Page 143: ...lator Figure 12 49 Resistor calculator The resistor calculator is a plugin that works in 3 modes Colour to Resistance In Colour to Resistance mode use the menus to select the colours of the bands of a...

Page 144: ...vice s screen or smaller it can also create empty bitmaps for you to work with Opening A File To open a file you may use either the context menu option Open With in the File Browser or you may enter R...

Page 145: ...me colour or empty region with a colour Dropper Click on a colour in the image to change the foreground colour to it Eraser The opposite of the pencil it changes painted pixels to white Text tool Draw...

Page 146: ...ize Allows you to show or hide a grid over the canvas and to specify its size Exit Exits Rockpaint Warning BE CAREFUL Rockpaint will NOT prompt you to save if you select Exit so any unsaved changes wi...

Page 147: ...ou start the Text Editor from the plugin browser you will be greeted with a blank screen When started from the Open with menu item your file should be shown on the screen You can now edit the file The...

Page 148: ...Chapter 12 Plugins 148 Key Action Select or Right Edit Line Select Character Left Exit Abort Editing Power Show Item Menu Long Select Delete Line The Rockbox manual version 3 13 Sansa c200v2 Series...

Page 149: ...last item then The following configuration example will change the main menu so that it will contain only the items for the file browser for resuming the playback and for changing the settings the la...

Page 150: ...yet supported and you want to write your own language file find the instructions on the Rockbox website ZLangFiles 13 1 5 Changing Filetype Colours Rockbox has the capability to modify the File Browse...

Page 151: ...4 19 page 147 automatically understands the colours file format but an external text editor can also be used To edit the colours file using Rockbox play it in the File Browser The file will open in t...

Page 152: ...t aspects of the Rockbox interface that can be themed the WPS or While Playing Screen the FMS or FM Screen if the player has a tuner and the SBS or Base Skin The WPS is the name used to describe the i...

Page 153: ...hole screen contains all the elements defined in each theme file The elements in this viewport are displayed with the same background foreground colours and the text is rendered in the same font as in...

Page 154: ...screen and fills the rest of the screen from sthat point The lines will scroll if this text does not fit in the viewport sThe user font is used and the foreground and background are set to black sand...

Page 155: ...l be displayed in viewport a if it is found Otherwise a red flashing warning will be displayed in viewport b Note The tag to display conditional viewports must come before the tag to preload the b vie...

Page 156: ...e does not have to be specified if no else part is desired The conditionals nest so the text in the if and else part can contain all commands including conditionals Enumerations Syntax xx alt1 alt2 al...

Page 157: ...can still be optionally scrolled while it is being displayed and scrollable formats can be displayed on the same line with non scrollable formats such as track elapsed time as long as they are separat...

Page 158: ..._one bmp 16 64 xl e rep_shuffle bmp 16 64 mm xd b xd c xd d xd e Four images at the same x and y position are preloaded in the example Which image to display is determined by the mm tag the repeat mod...

Page 159: ...e volume 70 bass 11 treble 12 balance 0 time format 12hour volume display numeric show files supported wps rockbox car wps lang rockbox afrikaans lng Note As you can see from the example configuration...

Page 160: ...tore all of the user settings that are described throughout this manual Hint Use the Save cfg File feature Main Menu Manage Settings to save the current settings then use a text editor to customize th...

Page 161: ...result in a high CPU load To save battery runtime you should switch this feature off see section 4 3 2 page 31 13 5 4 Audio format and bitrate In general the fastest decoding audio format will be the...

Page 162: ...Appendix A File formats 162 The Rockbox manual version 3 13 Sansa c200v2 Series...

Page 163: ...file FM Presets fmr Load the FM Presets previous are discarded Font fnt Change the user interface font to this one Image jpg View the JPEG image Link link Display list of target files and di rectories...

Page 164: ...2 3 Musepack mpc Supports SV7 and SV8 in mono stereo OGG Vorbis ogg oga Playback of some old floor 0 files may fail on low memory targets Files with album art larger than available RAM will be skipped...

Page 165: ...rts multichannel playback in cluding downmixing to stereo Apple Lossless m4a mp4 Shorten shn Seeking not supported True Audio tta Wave64 w64 Supports same formats as Wave form audio format Waveform au...

Page 166: ...ormat hes Progress bar and seek use subtracks instead of seconds SMS GG CV Sound Format sgc Supports Sega Mas ter System and Game Gear Sound Format Progress bar and seek use subtracks instead of secon...

Page 167: ...mat x x x Wavpack x x x Atari Sound Format x Synthetic music Mobile Application Format x x Game Boy Sound Format x AY Sound Chip Music x Hudson Entertainment System Sound Format x MSX Konami Sound Sys...

Page 168: ...ma wmv asf Codec specific mmf mod nsf nsfe sap sid spc gbs ay kss sgc vgm None a52 ac3 adx oma aa3 aif aiff au snd shn vox w64 wav cmc cm3 cmr cms dmc dlt mpt mpd hes vgz B 2 1 Featureset for generic...

Page 169: ...sid nsf nsfe gbs ay sgc vgm Genre tta spc sap Disc tta Track tta Year spc sid sap Composer mmf Comment spc rm ra rmvb vgm Albumartist None Grouping None B 2 3 Limitations of metadata handling 1 Multip...

Page 170: ...and multi scan JPEG files JPEG files must consist of a single scan with interleaved components as progessive and multi scan images require much more memory to decode C 2 Where to put album art The pi...

Page 171: ...mtitle bmp or albumartist albumtitle bmp Doublequotes will be replaced by single quotes If no album artist is set artist will be used instead See ZAlbumArt in the wiki for programs that will help you...

Page 172: ...which will not be shown in the WPS D 2 Hardware Capabilities Tag Description cc Check for presence of a real time clock returns c when used unconditionally tp Does this target have a radio Tp Indicat...

Page 173: ...s Tag Description V x y width height font Vf fgcolour Vb bgcolour Vg start end text See section 13 2 2 Vs mode param See section 13 2 2 Vl identifier Preloads a viewport for later display identifier i...

Page 174: ...in a conditional bl 1 0 1 2 N where the value 1 is used when the battery level isn t known it usually is The value N is only used when the battery level is ex actly 100 percent An image can also be u...

Page 175: ...csv8 aache ay gbs hes sgc vgm kss unknown The codec or der is as shown above ff File Frequency in Hz fk File Frequency in kHz fm File Name fn File Name without extension fp File Path fs File Size in K...

Page 176: ...time pv Current volume in dB Can also be used in a conditional pv Mute 0 dB Above 0 dB Mute is 0 volume is the values between Mute and max 0 dB is max volume and Above 0 dB is amplified volume This c...

Page 177: ...e playlist position then either the track title from the tags or the filename The viewer will display as many tracks as will fit in the viewport D 11 Runtime Database Tag Description rp Song playcount...

Page 178: ...mm Off All One Shuffle A B D 16 Playback Mode Tag Description mp Play status 0 4 in the order Stop Play Pause Fast For ward Rewind Recording Recording paused FM Radio play ing FM Radio muted Example...

Page 179: ...some values will never be returned Examples You are in the cs Main menu WPS Recording screen FM Radio screen if cs 2 This is the WPS D 18 List Title sbs only Tag Description Lt Title text Should be u...

Page 180: ...d It can produce neat effects when used with conditional viewports Example mv 2 5 Volume changing pv The example above will display the text Volume changing if the volume is being changed and 2 5 seco...

Page 181: ...to 0 if both x and y are not speci fied nimages optional number of sub images tiled vertically of the same height contained in the bitmap Default is 1 xd n i tag offset Display a preloaded image n im...

Page 182: ...sent on your player they can be displayed as follows Tag Description Cl x y maxwidth maxheight hor_align vert_align Define the settings for album art x x coordinate y y coordinate maxwidth Maximum hei...

Page 183: ...sets list usable in playlist viewer Tn Current preset name usable in playlist viewer Tf Current preset frequency usable in playlist viewer Tc Preset count i e the number of stations in the current pre...

Page 184: ...order left centre right If the aligned texts overlap they are merged Example ax V D 24 Conditional Tags Tag Description xx true false If Else Evaluate for true or false case xx alt1 alt2 alt3 else En...

Page 185: ...ublines onto one line with the display cycling round the defined sublines See section 13 2 4 page 157 for details D 26 Time and Date Tag Description cd Day of month from 01 to 31 ce Zero padded day of...

Page 186: ...at which to start drawing the bar width width of the bar for the full viewport width height height of the bar to set to the font height for horizontal bars and to the viewport height for vertical bars...

Page 187: ...nside b the specified width and height Example A 100px bar image with a 16px slider image needs the bar to be 116px wide and should be offset 8px left of the backdrop image to align correctly D 29 Oth...

Page 188: ...The character The character s Indicate that the line should scroll Can occur anywhere in a line given that the text is displayed see conditionals above You can specify up to ten scrolling lines Scrol...

Page 189: ...s 15s 30s 1min 2min 3min 5min 10min N A volume fade on off N A sort case on off N A show files all supported music playlists N A show filename exts off on unknown view_all N A follow playlist on off N...

Page 190: ...pacity devise a way to get ranges from config h mAh car adapter mode on off N A usb hid on off N A usb keypad mode multimedia presentation browser mouse N A usb skip first drive on off N A qs top any...

Page 191: ...d N A sort files alpha oldest newest type N A sort dirs alpha oldest newest N A sort interpret number digits numbers N A tagcache_autoupdate on off N A warn when erasing dynamic playlist on off N A cu...

Page 192: ...40 eq peak filter 7 cutoff in Hz q 0 to 64 gain 240 to 240 eq peak filter 8 cutoff in Hz q 0 to 64 gain 240 to 240 eq high shelf filter cutoff in Hz q 0 to 64 gain 240 to 240 0 1 dB dithering enabled...

Page 193: ...t path filename bmp N A backdrop path filename bmp N A foreground colour 000000 to FFFFFF RRGGBB background colour 000000 to FFFFFF RRGGBB line selector start colour 000000 to FFFFFF RRGGBB line selec...

Page 194: ...Appendix E Config file options 194 Setting Allowed Values Unit The Rockbox manual version 3 13 Sansa c200v2 Series...

Page 195: ...Appendix F Menu Overview 195 F Menu Overview include an overview of the menu structure here The Rockbox manual version 3 13 Sansa c200v2 Series...

Page 196: ...and what happened Whether the problem is repeatable or a one time occurrence All relevant data regarding the problem such as playlists MP3 files etc IMPORTANT G 2 Feature ideas To suggest an idea for...

Page 197: ...derstand them Add scandisk like features It would be a very slow operation that would drain the batteries and take a lot of useful ram for something that is much better and faster done when connected...

Page 198: ...rederic Dang Ngoc Pierre De lore Huw Smith Garrett Derner Barry McIntosh Leslie Donald son Lee Pilgrim Zakk Roberts Francois Boucher Matthias Wien tapper Brent Coutts Jens Arnold Gerald Vanbaren Chris...

Page 199: ...kel Adam Gashlin Robert Kukla David Quesada Jared Stafford Martin Hensel St phane Doyon Austin Appel Andre Smith Travis Hyyppa Ian Webber Pavel Gnelitsa Lutz B hne Will Robertson Robert Carboneau Ye W...

Page 200: ...ace Eric Lassauge Fran ois Dinel Francesco Rigoni Jo l Puik Klaas Bosteels Teruaki Kawashima Marcin ukasik Le Jin Alex Ben nee St phane Quertinmont Bartosz Fabianowski Adam Hogan Andrew Mahone Anton V...

Page 201: ...dersen Sergiu Rotaru No Lojkine Ophir Lojkine Stephan Grossklass John Morris Sean Bartell Se heon Ryu Asier Arsuaga Vencislav Atanasov Mauricio Garrido Nick Peskett Michael Goerner Richard Brittain A...

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